Science Hooker

Adi McArtney wonders whether germline editing is humanity simply taking Darwinism off autopilot or is a dark new chapter of divisive social engineering

What are the consequences of handing over life and death decisions to a machine in combat, even with tokenistic human oversight?

Realising the myriad of ways that science is intimately connected with human life took me some time. It dawned on me slowly as I experienced homelessness, Himalayan mountaineering, war zones, Delhi slums, gender transitioning and sex work.